Team work makes the dream work: Making magazines with Holly Catford and friends

In this talk, Holly Catford will take us on a journey into the world of editorial design and visual collaboration. Magazines are always a team effort and her ethos is that “everything I do is better when I work with other people”.


She will introduce us to some of the projects she has worked on over the last ten years, and then share the stage with five of her favourite collaborators: 


Robert Billington – food and advertising photographer
www.instagram.com/robertbillingto/

Reena Makwana – illustrator
www.instagram.com/reena.makwana/

Sarah Cliff – illustrator
www.instagram.com/sarahcliffillustration/

Wendy Wong – illustrator
www.instagram.com/wend.ywong/

Caitlin Isola – food and drink photographer
www.instagram.com/caitlinisola/


Holly Catford has worked at Esterson Associates with Simon Esterson for the last decade. She’s the art director of History Today, the art editor of Eye and Pulp and has worked on redesigns of The Guardian and The Sunday Times. In 2017 she founded Pit – a magazine about food and fire – and was shortlisted for art director of the year at the British Society of Magazine Editors in 2022 for her work on this. In 2020 she founded Cheese magazine – a magazine about... cheese.